What Do We Still Owe the World?

We are retired and have done a lot among the four of us to contribute to the world. Do we still owe something? We have contributed to our community, to our professions, to the economy and we have prioritized our families, continuing to contribute to the lives of our children and grandchildren. We really don’t owe anything to the world, but we are still called to continue to fight for the big things we have been passionate about like equality and healing the environment. We do owe some things to ourselves and in our conversation, we discover our desire to be kinder, more present to others, and finding inner calm and peace. Instead of being productive and transactional, being in relationship is paramount and ‘to be’ becomes more important that ‘to do’. That changes the question to, "What is the gift I can give the world at this time in my life?", instead of the question, "What do I owe?" It is an inspiring conversation that has us being intentional about asking ourselves, "How am I going to be today?" when getting up in the morning.